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Cameron Petersen won wet and wild MotoAmerica Steel Commander Superbike Race One at rainy Road America, in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.
Petersen tried to pass his teammate Jake Gagne in the final corner, and the two Attack Performance/Progressive Yamaha Racing riders ended up racing to the finish line side-by-side. Petersen had just enough to beat Gagne by 0.004 second, or half a wheel, to take his second win of the season.
Gagne came up painfully short in second place but took over the Championship point lead.
Warhorse HSBK Racing Ducati rider Loris Baz raced with the lead duo until two laps from the end when he took a shot at passing Petersen for second and ran wide at Turn Five. From there, the Frenchman said he focused on finishing on the podium after the rough start to his 2024 season.
JD Beach was a distant fourth on his Tytlers Cycle Racing BMW M 1000 RR.
Brandon Paasch rounded out the top five finishers on his Vision Wheel M4 ECSTAR Suzuki GSX-R1000R.
Danilo Lewis finished sixth and won the Superbike Cup category on his Team Brazil BMW.
Benjamin Smith took a lonely seventh-place finish on his FLO4LAW Racing Yamaha.
Bobby Fong brought his Wrench Motorcycles Yamaha home in eighth.
Baz’s teammate Josh Herrin ran off the track in Turn Six early in the race but was able to salvage ninth.
Gabriel Da Silva got 10th on his Jarritos Racing/Team GMR Honda CBR1000RR-R Fireblade SP.
The challenging race conditions led to some significantly crashes.
Sean Dylan Kelly crashed his TopPro Racing BMW at high speed while leading into Turn 12 on lap three. His condition was not known at post time.
Paasch’s teammate Xavi Fores was running strong in fourth on lap seven when he crashed in Turn Six. Fores walked away from the scene.
Cameron Beaubier was coming back from an off-track excursion and running two seconds per lap faster than the leaders when he crashed out of fourth place on lap eight of 10. Unfortunately, Beaubier suffered an unknown injury to his right leg that required him to be carried away.
We will report more details as they become available.